Re: Re: LBA48 partitioning scheme

On Saturday 04 June 2005 05:23, gary ng wrote:
> I already have written the patch for 2.4 kernel long ago but as far as I
> know it was being rejected :-)
>
> However, I no long see the need of it as I only do sofmodding and the two
> most popular HD upgrade programs are based on linux and would automatically
> formatted the HD into the 8-137 as F, beyond as G layout. So the net result
> is that most big HD out there follow this scheme, no need for your generic
> partition table at all :-)

Ah. Oh well, I'll just do that instead. 

It would be better to have a more flexible scheme, but if you've already 
written the patch and no one used it under linux anyway, there seems little 
point.



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